A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will: Which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame

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Page 15 Choice will be in a Degree some Way compounded of the Degree of Good
supposed by the Judgment, the Degree of apparent Probability or Certainty of
that Good, and the Degree of the View or Sense, or Liveliness of the Idea the
Mind has, ...

Page 93 To illustrate this ; If we should suppose a sovereign Self-moving Power in a
natural Body : But that the Body is in Motion already, by an' antecedent Bias ; for
instance, Gravitation towards the Center of the Earth ; and has one Degree of
Motion ...

Page 217 And if ten Degrees of such Hindrance take away all such Liberty, then nine Degrees take away nine Parts in ten, and leave but one Degree or Liberty. And
therefore there is but one Degree of Blameableness, cęteris pari- hus, in the
Neglect ...

Page 252 ference, under a Notion of that's being a State of Liberty, is contrary to common
sense ; as 'tis a Dictates of common sense, that Indifference itself, in many cases,
is vicious, and so to a high Degree. As if when I see my Neighbour or near Friend
...

Page 263 If a thoufand Degrees of Motive abolish all Liberty, then five Hundred take it half
away. If one Degree of the Influence of Motive don't at all infringe or diminish
Liberty, then no more do two Degrees -x for Nothing doubled, is still Nothing.

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Page 208 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.

Page 201 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, "Lo, I come:" in the volume of the book it is written of me, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." Yea, thy law is within my heart: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

Page 209 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Page 197 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...

Page 205 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Page 208 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation...

Page 197 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Page 356 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

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